On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pid, > > On 10/28/12 10:40 AM, Pid * wrote: > > On 28 Oct 2012, at 11:39, Ashkan Rahmani <ashkan...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, Now I have a windows 2003 server and a Tomcat 6.x on it. Our > >> application has many many parts and it's very big. > >> > >> Actually we are not happy with tomcat performance, (We are > >> working very hard on developing that software and improving > >> performance) . We want to improve application performance > >> (working on it now) and tomcat (by tuning and we are doing now > >> and using latest stable version) and finally OS, for this we want > >> to remove (damn) windows and come back to centos 6 and maybe some > >> hardware upgrade. My question from you is: is here anyone have > >> some experience with tomcat on windows and Linux which running > >> same things? which has better performance? > > > > Your app is usually responsible for 95% of the tunable overhead, > > the rest usually comes down to choosing the right number of threads > > per Tomcat instance and the appropriate JVM memory and GC > > configuration. > > +1 > > > There are reasons people prefer Linux to Windows but I think you'd > > see a fairly substantial debate about whether the OS choice has an > > effect on raw performance. > > Personally, I prefer Linux based upon its friendliness to developers > and administrators: it's got the tools we need and it's easy to build > additional tools if necessary. Ever tried to script anything in > Microsoft Windows? Your options are a) .bat files, b) WSH (which I was > surprised to find out still actually exists), or c) install some > interpreter like Perl or Python and you may as well be running in a > *NIX environment. I suppose WSH lets you write scripts in Javascript > but ... not my cup of tea. > > The only performance-related items of which I am aware that sometimes > give Microsoft Windows a disadvantage are: > > 1. Poor uptime (due to general instability and frequent required-reboot > OS updates) > 2. Limited IP stacks on non-"server" versions > 3. Bizarre observations when using high-resolution (or even ms-res) > clocks and timers... seems like you can't get more than about 0.1-sec > resolution or so reliably -- or at least plausibly -- on a win32 box. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlCN73QACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCOVwCfVGv+qBc7gEJ2w5/ZqsGqdSZz > B7AAoLghhFr2GWZqc/uqGNCetGhzJmGo > =vSun > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > thank you very much. really useful. -- Best Regards, Ashkan R
